We study a class of irreducible modules for Affine Lie algebras which possess weight spaces of both finite and infinite dimensions. These modules appear as the quotients of "imaginary Verma modules" induced from the "imaginary Borel subalgebra".

We introduce the notion of Hankel operators associated with analytic crossed products and consider the Nehari problem in this setting.

A ring R is called a right SF-ring if all of its simple right R-modules are flat. It is well known that a von Neumann regular ring is a right SF-ring. In this paper we study conditions under which the converse holds.

Two subsets of the Euclidean plane touch each other if they have a point in common and there is a straight line separating one from the other.

It is shown that there exists a positive constant c such that if are families of plane convex sets with for some k ≥ 1 and if every touches every then either contains k members having nonempty intersection.

It is proved that a compactum is locally n-connected if and only if it is the limit (in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff convergence) of an "equi-locally n-connected" sequence of (at most) (n + 1)-dimensional compacta.

We show, among other things, that, for n = 0,1, the negative of the square of a purely imaginary zero of is unimodal on (n — 2, n — 1). One of the important tools in the proof is the Mittag-Leffler partial fractions expansion of .

We show the existence of atomless lattice-ordered groups which have doubly transitive representations. In so doing, we answer a question of M. Giraudet from 1981 [4].

It is shown that, in characteristic zero, a finite subgroup of a general linear group is generated by pseudo-reflections if and only if its ring of coinvariants satisfies Poincaré duality.

Cette note corrige un erreur commise dans [Lou, Théorème 4].

Problem 36 of the third edition of Birkhoff's Lattice theory [2] asks whether the MacNeille completion of uniquely complemented lattice is necessarily uniquely complemented. We show that the MacNeille completion of a uniquely complemented lattice need not be complemented.

Let Mn be the algebra of n × n matrices over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. For A ∊ Mn , denote by the collection of all matrices in Mn that are similar to A. In this paper we characterize those invertible linear operators ϕ on Mn that satisfy , where for some given A1,..., Ak ∊ Mn and denotes the (Zariski) closure of S. Our theorem covers a result of Howard on linear operators mapping the set of matrices annihilated by a given polynomial into itself, and extends a result of Chan and Lim on linear operators commuting with the function f(x) = xk for a given positive integer k ≥ 2. The possibility of weakening the invertibility assumption in our theorem is considered, a partial answer to a conjecture of Howard is given, and some extensions of our result to arbitrary fields are discussed.

We prove that an inherently nonfinitely based algebra cannot generate an abelian variety. On the other hand, we show by example that it is possible for an inherently nonfinitely based algebra to generate a strongly solvable variety.

In this paper, we use the Lagrange neighbour and our equivalence theorem for primitive ideals to obtain lower bounds which are sharper than those given in the literature for class numbers of real quadratic fields in general, but applied to greatest advantage when d is of ERD type.

In this paper we describe projective curves and surfaces such that almost all their hyperplane sections are projectively equivalent. Our description is complete for curves and close to being complete for smooth surfaces. In the appendix we make some remarks on connections between the mentioned property of a projective variety and its adjunction properties.

In this paper, we consider all metacyclic groups of the type 〈a,b | an - 1, b 2 = 1, ba = aib〉 and give a concrete description of their rational group algebras. As a consequence we obtain, in a natural way, units which generate a subgroup of finite index in the full unit group, for almost all such groups.

Let L 1, L 2 ⊂ Cn be two totally real subspaces of real dimension n, and such that L 1 ∩ L 2 = {0}. We show that continuous functions on L 1 ∪L 2 allow Carleman approximation by entire functions if and only if L 1 ∪L 2 is polynomially convex. If the latter condition is satisfied, then a function f:L 1 ∪L 2 —> C such that f|L iCk(Li), i = 1,2, allows Carleman approximation of order k by entire functions if and only if f satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations up to order k at the origin.

In this paper, under certain conditions on the orthogonal distribution T 0, we give a characterization of real hypersurfaces of type A in a complex space form Mn(c), c ≠ 0.

Let V be any summability method (whether linear or conservative or not), 0 < p < 1 and s a real or complex sequence. Let Ep denote the matrix of the Euler method. A theorem is proved, giving a condition under which the V-summability of Eps will imply the Ep -summability of s. This extends, in generalized form, an earlier result of N. H. Bingham who considered the case where s is a real sequence and V = B (Borel's method). It is also proved that even for real sequences, the condition given in the theorem cannot be replaced by the condition used by Bingham.

An approximation theorem for V-topologies on not necessarily commutative rings is proved. This holds for a certain class of rings (called rings with enough units) and a certain class of V-topologies (called coarse V-topologies). This has application, for example, to V-topologies induced by orderings.

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a ring to be a union of finitely many proper two-sided ideals.